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Important Honey Flow Sources in India

Flora secreting abundance of nectar and having large plantations is known as honey flow source. But to avail honey flow colonies should have peaked their population by this time. Some of important honey flow sources are: eucalyptus, brassica (sarson & toria), toon, soapnut, citrus, litchi, berseem, rubber, cotton, plectranthus, jamun, buckwheat, sunflower, shisham, acacia etc (see Fig. 8.1 to 8.6).